Miscellaneous Tech News
-
Apple claims 'half a trillion dollars' App Store economy
Apple has said that its App Store ecosystem "facilitated half a trillion dollars" of trade in 2019.
The firm said more than 85% of that figure occurred via transactions from which it did not take a commission. The announcement comes at a time Apple and other US tech giants are facing increased anti-competition scrutiny. A leading developer has also called on the iPhone-maker to lower the fees it charges, ahead of its annual developers' conference next week. An Apple representative told the BBC that it was proud of the commerce that it had enabled and welcomed scrutiny of its App Store. -
Would you pay to Zoom Keanu Reeves or Star Trek's Riker?
Actors Keanu Reeves and Jonathan Frakes are among the celebrities offering fans the opportunity to chat one-to-one via Zoom during lockdown.
Reeves is auctioning a 15-minute Zoom call for a children's cancer charity. The highest bid at time of writing is $9,800 (£7,800). Meanwhile, on the celebrity message platform Cameo, £166 will buy a 10-minute Zoom call with Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes or skateboarder Tony Hawk. Cameo said there had been "a tonne of interest" in its Zoom service, Cameo Live, despite just 31 celebrities - only four of whom are women - signing up since launch, on Sunday. The start-up, which launched in 2017, also offers short recorded personal messages from a range of celebrities including reality TV personalities and sports stars, who charge various fees. "Cameo Live is very similar to a backstage pass at a concert or a meet-and-greet at an autographic signing," spokesman Brandon Kazimer told BBC News. "This is just the newest iteration of fan-talent access." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Would you pay to Zoom Keanu Reeves or Star Trek's Riker?
Actors Keanu Reeves and Jonathan Frakes are among the celebrities offering fans the opportunity to chat one-to-one via Zoom during lockdown.
Reeves is auctioning a 15-minute Zoom call for a children's cancer charity. The highest bid at time of writing is $9,800 (£7,800). Meanwhile, on the celebrity message platform Cameo, £166 will buy a 10-minute Zoom call with Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes or skateboarder Tony Hawk. Cameo said there had been "a tonne of interest" in its Zoom service, Cameo Live, despite just 31 celebrities - only four of whom are women - signing up since launch, on Sunday. The start-up, which launched in 2017, also offers short recorded personal messages from a range of celebrities including reality TV personalities and sports stars, who charge various fees. "Cameo Live is very similar to a backstage pass at a concert or a meet-and-greet at an autographic signing," spokesman Brandon Kazimer told BBC News. "This is just the newest iteration of fan-talent access."I could see businesses doing this as a morale boost, and I think it's awesome that these people are using comparatively little resources along with their celebrity in order to further good causes. I couldn't ever afford it unless we drop to a Zoom with Carrot Top where he's paying me.
-
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Would you pay to Zoom Keanu Reeves or Star Trek's Riker?
Actors Keanu Reeves and Jonathan Frakes are among the celebrities offering fans the opportunity to chat one-to-one via Zoom during lockdown.
Reeves is auctioning a 15-minute Zoom call for a children's cancer charity. The highest bid at time of writing is $9,800 (£7,800). Meanwhile, on the celebrity message platform Cameo, £166 will buy a 10-minute Zoom call with Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes or skateboarder Tony Hawk. Cameo said there had been "a tonne of interest" in its Zoom service, Cameo Live, despite just 31 celebrities - only four of whom are women - signing up since launch, on Sunday. The start-up, which launched in 2017, also offers short recorded personal messages from a range of celebrities including reality TV personalities and sports stars, who charge various fees. "Cameo Live is very similar to a backstage pass at a concert or a meet-and-greet at an autographic signing," spokesman Brandon Kazimer told BBC News. "This is just the newest iteration of fan-talent access."I could see businesses doing this as a morale boost, and I think it's awesome that these people are using comparatively little resources along with their celebrity in order to further good causes. I couldn't ever afford it unless we drop to a Zoom with Carrot Top where he's paying me.
He'd have to pay you.
-
New databases being added to IBMi
https://www.itjungle.com/2020/06/15/more-open-source-databases-coming-to-ibm-i/ -
-
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
$50 says the guy that wrote the fearmongering article is an apple fan.
-
Doing some Home Network re-config. Mainly IP Change to test a router & VPN
-
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Doing some Home Network re-config. Mainly IP Change to test a router & VPN
Interesting industry news
-
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Doing some Home Network re-config. Mainly IP Change to test a router & VPN
Interesting industry news
Oops
-
Apple accused of 'hostile' app fee policies
Apple is facing mounting calls to reconsider its App Store rules, from the creators of the apps themselves.
Dozens have used the term "hostile" to describe how they perceive it treats its third-party developer community. The backlash has been sparked by a row between the tech giant and the makers of a new email app over a demand that Apple be given the means to take a cut of the services's subscription fee. The clash threatens to overshadow one of Apple's biggest annual events. The iPhone-maker hosts its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. The five-day event is used to showcase new technologies and encourage software-makers to adopt them. -
-
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
From the company that brought you "data loss" and "holy shit this screwed me" moments....
-
UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model
In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.
The Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused. However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data. The government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point. Instead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test. Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she decides it has been made fit for purpose, which is not the case at present. Germany, Italy and Denmark are among other countries to have switched from a so-called "centralised" approach to a "decentralised" one. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model
In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.
The Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused. However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data. The government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point. Instead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test. Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she decides it has been made fit for purpose, which is not the case at present. Germany, Italy and Denmark are among other countries to have switched from a so-called "centralised" approach to a "decentralised" one.None of that crap matters - you'll never get enough people to voluntarily install it.
-
Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans
Apple says it did not know the UK was working on a "hybrid" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.
The firm took the unusual step of saying it was also unaware of an issue regarding distance-measuring, which was flagged by Health Secretary Matt Hancock in Thursday's daily briefing. Apple said it was "difficult to understand" the claims. Downing Street said the government had "worked closely with Apple and Google". In tests carried out in the UK, there were occasions when software tools developed by Apple and Google could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away. During the briefing, Mr Hancock said: "Measuring distance is clearly mission critical to any contact-tracing app." -
-
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-your-system-with-fail2ban-and-firewalld-blacklists/
Read that earlier this morning, was good. I didn't know you could use firewalld to block by country. I guess I never noticed that before but that is going to be very helpful!
-
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-your-system-with-fail2ban-and-firewalld-blacklists/
Read that earlier this morning, was good. I didn't know you could use firewalld to block by country. I guess I never noticed that before but that is going to be very helpful!
A firewall by definition can block by region, because regions are assigned by ranges. It's not accurate, but mostly works.
There are lots of problems with it. The range FiOS uses in Dallas is assigned to Ontario, CA so every IP detection here comes up as Toronto. Few people block Canada, but once in a while it causes issues.
It's rare that you'd get a wildly different region in your IPs for now. Once SpaceX style ISPs are live, all bets are off.
But just be aware it's range blocking, not actually country blocking. It's just that ranges typically have a country association.
-
Twitch: Streamers call for a blackout to recognise victims of sexual and racial abuses
#Twitchblackout is trending today as streamers across the world ask people to avoid the site for a day.
They're calling for a blackout because they think the streaming site can do more to recognise victims of sexual and racial abuse. Dozens of women have recently claimed they have been sexually assaulted by people in the gaming industry. Twitch says it takes accusations of sexual harassment seriously. Streamers are arguing Twitch has not acted quickly enough when there have been sexual assault claims made against some of its content creators. Some also think the site has been too lenient when others have been accused of using racist or homophobic language. Encouraging people to stay off the platform for a day could deprive Twitch of viewers and income.
